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Allegra Kirkland

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Allegra Kirkland is a New York-based reporter for Talking Points Memo. She previously worked on The Nation’s web team and as the associate managing editor for AlterNet. Follow her on Twitter @allegrakirkland.

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Police are investigating the death of Juneau, Alaska’s mayor after his body was found in his home on Monday afternoon. According to the Juneau Empire, 70-year-old Greg Fisk had taken office just one month ago.

Donald Trump’s campaign manager on Tuesday accused the media of coordinating an elaborate conspiracy to deny the billionaire's claim that “thousands and thousands” of New Jersey residents cheered the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has been characteristically unapologetic about his claim that “thousands and thousands” of New Jersey residents cheered as the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001, even though contemporaneous news reports don’t support it.

And his insistence on that recollection, which has no basis in fact, shows just how expert he is at roping together conspiracy theories, urban legends, and rumors that lurk on the fringes of the Internet and bringing them into the mainstream.

After a 32-hour protest by student activists, Princeton University administrators agreed Thursday to consider removing the name of pro-segregationist former U.S. president Woodrow Wilson from campus buildings.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Thursday called on political leaders to welcome the thousands of Syrian refugees seeking asylum in the United States, comparing them to Jewish refugees who fled Europe during the Holocaust.